Upper East Side Hoarder Combs Through Major Media Heirlooms
The names of powerhouse 1950s media couple “Tex and Jink” are being dragged through the mud these days. Or, more accurately, through piles of junk accumulated by their hoarder son Kevin.
The 65-year-old unemployed McCrary, who lives off royalties from the estate of his journalist parents, has until Friday to clear out his Upper East Side one-bedroom of accumulated detritus. Otherwise, he will be locked out. From a recent report by New York Times reporter Corey Kilgannon:
So far, McCrary has been able to excavate a small patch of space near the doorway and, in the process, had uncovered relics from his privileged childhood as the younger son of Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, the glamorous radio and television personalities who were pioneers of the radio and television talk show…
A TV crew recorded his birth, he said, and as an infant he posed with his mother for the cover of Look...
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